Ooo. Good catch. For some reason Rogers had geolocated me to Newfoundland. I'd assumed it would remember when I'd punched in my postal code a few days ago. When I switch back to ON, I get more like what I was expecting.

Ooo. Good catch. For some reason Rogers had geolocated me to Newfoundland. I'd assumed it would remember when I'd punched in my postal code a few days ago. When I switch back to ON, I get more like what I was expecting.

Ah, so it isn't available in Cambridge, ON. I was genuinely surprised when you mentioned it. A deal like that is too good for Ontario.--Formerly known as section32

I'm also fearful of what aggregated will bring to consumers. Seems it might bring higher prices and stricter bandwidth restrictions

You already have a general idea of what to expect since Start.ca is already on aggregated.

Another thing that the CRTC has to take into consideration is that if they do allow speed matching on non-aggregated, it would put Start.ca at a disadvantage for adopting aggregated from launch, which would be somewhat unfair when this is Start's only competitive edge for the time being.

And even if the CRTC did decide to force Rogers to offer the new speeds on non-aggregated, you would still be looking at a few more months before Rogers files new tariffs and the CRTC approves them - assuming the TPIAs do not dispute the rates if Rogers decides to adjust (inflate) non-aggregated rates to minimize potential prejudice to its aggregated TPIA clients.

So, worst case, the CRTC avoids shooting themselves in the foot and stick to its previous decision. Best case, non-aggregated ISPs will enjoy a short-lived victory and Start.ca who did the "right thing" by going with aggregated instead of betting the barn on end-of-life tariffs gets screwed by the CRTC and non-aggregated ISPs for the time being.

Whatever happens, everybody loses. Only thing that changes is who and how much.

Instead of wasting effort on silly/temporary stuff like this, that effort should go into having the aggregated per-Gbps rates sanity-checked (should be possible to get them down to about 8$/Mbps) and getting 10G aggregation into tariffs since everyone will inevitably be stuck with the former and need the latter to reduce recurring load balancing problems, which enables more efficient use of each purchased Mbps of capacity.

Another thing that the CRTC has to take into consideration is that if they do allow speed matching on non-aggregated, it would put Start.ca at a disadvantage for adopting aggregated from launch, which would be somewhat unfair when this is Start's only competitive edge for the time being.

I would say going Aggregated still gives Start one big advantage, over others like TekSavvy who are still on Disaggregated.

Access to Rogers' entire footprint. They can offer service in some areas where TekSavvy, et al, can't.

However, my understanding is that the rates on Aggregated are higher. Which is the reason other TPIA providers have been avoiding Agg. for as long as possible. So in that sense, yeah, Start has been screwed over.

That is a very hot package. With this whole speed matching fiasco it's enticing to start thinking about alternatives. Everytime there's a speed bump, i can see Rogers playing this game of cat-and-mouse.

That is a very hot package. With this whole speed matching fiasco it's enticing to start thinking about alternatives. Everytime there's a speed bump, i can see Rogers playing this game of cat-and-mouse.

Only available in Maritimes where Rogers is competing against Bell Aliant's FTTH, so Rogers runs FTTH as well. They can't offer that in Ontario widespread.--Battle.net Tech Support MVP

Sometime this week. It sucks, but they don't tell you what day. Chances are, it'll be released in the morning with the other stuff. If I get an email on it (which I should due to my comments on it), I'll post it up asap.--Battle.net Tech Support MVP

If i was betting one thing, the CRTC "MAY" make Rogers provide equal speeds for both agg and non-agg for D3 modems only. D2 will not likely see any changes. And before some of you say it.. YES I KNOW D2 can support 30mb but the rogers network can not on D2. It's a fact. As for TPIA prices, rogers charges ISP's, I have a feeling it won't be as high as the interim, but won't be as low as the ISP's hope.

Price for agg was already released last month. This decision is about whether this is an existing package upgrade privided free to retail customers, which should then see nonagg get for free as well, or whether the crtc bought rogers' bull in that these are 'new' packages altogether.

Cbb decision for rogers will probably hchange with a new cost study filed by rogers, trying to support why they deserve more money when they dont.--Battle.net Tech Support MVP

Cbb decision for rogers will probably hchange with a new cost study filed by rogers, trying to support why they deserve more money when they dont.

I think it's time that we marched on the Competition Bureau (CB) instead of protesting what the CRTC does. The CRTC continues to issue idiotic decisions based on the fact that the incumbents are constituted as they are - retail & wholesale & content & cellular & POTS. The CB should be busting up the incumbents into their constituent atoms. Then maybe we can get sane decisions from the CRTC.